Question

I create text file and would like to write some content to that file, but I am getting an error in the stream writer statement.

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 Dim fileLoc As String = "d:\sample1.txt"
    Dim fs As FileStream = Nothing
    If (Not File.Exists(fileLoc)) Then
        fs = File.Create(fileLoc)
    Else
        File.Delete(fileLoc)
        fs = File.Create(fileLoc)
    End If
    Using sw As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(fileLoc)
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   some thing

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    ----------
   sw.writeline(phone)

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   end using

The error I get is:

The process cannot access the file ‘d:\sample1.txt’ because it is
being used by another process.

Answer 1

It happens since you are deleting the file and soon creating it. The delete process is going on so it would allow you create the file.

Dim fs As FileStream = New FileStream(Application.StartupPath & "\Log\log.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite)
Dim s As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(fs)
s.Close()
fs.Close()$

Hope this code helps you.